Word: pollitt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tenure-which means that its possessor cannot be fired, except for flagrant wrongdoing. But the classics faculty turned thumbs down. Instead they appointed him senior lecturer, a post that carries fewer classroom responsibilities than a professorship. "It's sort of a middle ground," explained Department Chairman J.J. Pollitt...
...hands of such masters as Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee, individuals were always shown to be deviates first and human beings second," in a review of The Boys in the Band [March 30], is an idiot. Is Amanda Wingfield more deviate than human? Is Blanche DuBois? Is Maggie Pollitt? Is Serafina Delle Rose? Is Tom Wingfield? Is Mitch in Streetcar"? Is Big Daddy, for that matter? If these people are deviates first and human beings second then I am not a homosexual sitting at a typewriter in Philadelphia; I am a dog on the moon baying at the earth...